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Finding a PC by MAC Address

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by djdustb

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One of our users has requested that I find a PC that is/was on our doamin, he has supplied me with the MAC address and it's old name. using the name I have no leads or history. Can anyone suggest any Tools that can be used to find a Win98/Win2k system on a domain using only the Mac address?

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by cg it

humm If you have WINS running you can try a host name look up to get an IP address then do a ARP request ARP -A at the cmd line. you'l get the MAC address for the IP address from the ARP request. Match the 2 you've got your computer.

by mirkob

If you run this script on Windows 2000 you will get somthing like "error line 20".
Just open script in notepad and replace all "C:\windows" strings with "C:Winnt".

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